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...team had a few anxious moments. With Helen Wills Moody through with tennis for the season, England's pretty 21-year-old Katherine Stammers wore out husky Helen Jacobs, 5-7, 6-1. 9-7. Then demure little Dorothy Round mopped up the court with tiny Ethel Burkhardt Arnold who has been the sensation of U. S. women's tournaments this season. That gave England a lead of 2-to-0. with only five more matches to be played...
...matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited to a flyswatter than a tennis racket and wins on steadiness, indefatigable nerve and the brains which most women players either signally lack or fail to use. As Ethel Burkhardt, she learned tennis in San Francisco, went East at 20 in 1929, reached sixth place in national ranking in 1930, then married a carpet salesman and dropped out of major play. She called attention to her reappearance this year by winning in quick succession the Seabright, Manchester and Maidstone tournaments...
Women 1) Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, Berkeley, Calif. 2) Miss Helen Jacobs, Berkeley. 3) Miss Edith Cross, San Francisco. 4) Miss Sarah Palfrey, Boston. 5) Mrs. L. A. Harper, San Francisco. 6) Miss Mary Greef, Kansas City. 7) Miss Eleanor Goss, New York City. 8) Miss Ethel Burkhardt, San Francisco. 9) Miss Marjorie K. Gladman, Santa Monica. 10) Miss Josephine Cruickshank, Santa Ana, Calif...
...spectators gathered around Philadelphia's Franklin Field, it was exciting to see pompadoured, red-shirted George Simpson of Ohio State equal the world's100-yard dash record?9? sec.* In Des Moines four lean-legged youths named Trimble, Burkhardt, Rogers and Sentman, leaped over high hurdles for 480 yds. in shuttle relay, in world's record time of 1 min. 2 3 10 sec. Also in Des Moines, West Pointer Carl Jark, with mighty ventral effort, sailed his discus 158 ft., 3 in., another record...
Good team-play and drive characterized the University attack and defense, Hutchinson was easily the best player for the Hockey Club. The teams played as follows: HARVARD BOSTON HOCKEY CLUB. Gross, r.w. l.w., Clifford, Gaw Avery, Cabot, r.c. l.c., Synnot Bigelow, Baldwin, l.c. r.c., Hutchinson Bacon, Snelling, l.w. r.w., Burkhardt White, c.p. c.p., Morton Walker, p. p., Scott Holmes, g. g., Story...